Alumni
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Laura Dolbow ’17 wins ABA Section of Administrative Law’s Gellhorn-Sargentich Essay Competition
Dolbow’s paper addresses the Senate Appropriations Committee’s oversight over guidance documents. Read MoreOct. 18, 2017
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Climate Change Research Network blog post addresses private-sector response to climate change
The TIPS-funded research team of Alexander Maki, Michael Vandenbergh, Jonathan Gilligan and Mark Cohen is exploring private-sector programs offering "employee energy benefits." Read MoreSep. 26, 2017
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Don Cochran ’92 (BA’80) confirmed as U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee
Cochran currently serves on the law faculty at Belmont University. Read MoreSep. 18, 2017
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18 members of the Class of 2017 selected for Order of the Coif
Laura Dolbow ’17 has won the Gellhorn-Sargentich Law Student Essay Competition, an annual writing competition sponsored by the American Bar Association Section of Administrative Law. The award, which includes a $5,000 cash prize, recognizes students who write in any topic in administrative law. Dolbow is the third Vanderbilt Law student… Read MoreSep. 15, 2017
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Matt Leggett ’07 named chief counsel of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Leggett had previously served as policy counsel for the Senate Republican Policy Committee since 2012. Read MoreSep. 13, 2017
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James P. Danly ’13 named general counsel for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Danly previously served as an associate at Skadden Arps, where he focused on energy regulation. Read MoreSep. 13, 2017
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Bob Reder ’78 among first to respond to Chancellor’s Chair Challenge
Reder and his wife, Theresa, have established the Enterprise Chair at VLS through a significant gift. Retired from a 33-year legal career with Milbank Tweed in New York, Reder is now a professor of the practice of law at Vanderbilt. Read MoreAug. 25, 2017
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Joycelyn Stevenson ’01 featured as “Attorney of the Month” in Attorney at Law Magazine
Stevenson was recently named executive director of the Tennessee Bar Association. Read MoreAug. 24, 2017
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Nat Robinson ’18 (MBA’07) and team of MBA students seek to provide secure mobile banking for refugees
Robinson's team of Turner Family Center for Social Ventures summer fellows won $15,000 at the 36/86 Student Edition Pitch Competition with their idea for a mobile banking service and researched countries where they will launch the new service. Their work will continue during this academic year. Read MoreAug. 23, 2017
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Three VLS alumni are 2017-18 presidents of the Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee Bar Associations
Augusta Dowd ’82, Brian D. (Buck) Rogers ’94 and Lucian Pera ‘85 are serving one-year terms as presidents of the Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee state bar associations, and Joycelyn Stevenson ‘01 was named executive director of the TBA. Read MoreAug. 16, 2017